Emel Filiz-Ozbay

About

Emel Filiz-Ozbay received her PhD with distinction from Columbia University in 2007 and joined the University of Maryland faculty in the same year. Her fields of interest include Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Market Design, and Contract Theory. She studies incentives, how they relate to the behavioral biases of agents, and welfare-enhancing choice architecture. She teaches Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory at both graduate and undergraduate levels at the University of Maryland. Her research has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, Journal of European Economic Association, and Journal of Economic Theory. She has served as a Co-Editor at Economic Inquiry, Co-Editor-in-Chief at Mathematical Social Sciences, and is currently an Associate Editor at Management Science.

Selected publications

• Do lottery payments induce savings behavior? Evidence from the lab

  Journal of Public Economics · 2015-03-14 · 73 citations

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• Framing effects, earnings expectations, and the design of student loan repayment schemes

  Journal of Public Economics · 2020-02-07 · 45 citations

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• Demand for Giving to Multiple Charities: An Experimental Study

  Journal of the European Economic Association · 2018-04-07 · 44 citations

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  We study how competition among charities affects individuals’ giving behavior. We characterize situations where charities benefitting substitute or complementary causes incentivize donations by offering subsidies in the form of rebates. Our theory predicts that an increase in the rebate rate offered by a given charity relative to a substitute charity will shift donations away from the substitute charity, but this “stealing” effect is not expected when complementary charities are considered. Our…

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• The role of cognitive ability and personality traits for men and women in gift exchange outcomes

  Experimental Economics · 2016-11-07 · 20 citations

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  Abstract We examine the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in a gift exchange experiment. Controlling for cognitive ability and personality characteristics, men offer higher wages than women, and men and women with greater cognitive ability and greater agreeableness on the Big Five personality scale offer higher wages as well. Men provide greater effort than women do, and respond to higher wage rates with greater increases in effort. For both genders, one standard deviation increas…

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• Multi-object auctions with resale: Theory and experiment

  Games and Economic Behavior · 2014-11-07 · 14 citations

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Labs

• Filiz-Ozbay, Emel | ECONPI

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